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Updated: May 17, 2025
Unziar was unable to ride on at once after crossing the river, which is in flood. Therefore I have come. Was it possible Rallywood had merely shirked facing the difficulty in this way? thought Selpdorf. 'Ah, Major Counsellor? And these are the despatches? 'These are Major Counsellor's private despatches, which were stolen from him within the frontier of Maäsau! said Rallywood.
'I have spoken with him already this evening, and I ah rather liked what he said. 'Then why haven't you arranged it? To-morrow he joins and he must never be permitted to join the Guard! We might have asked Abenfeldt to remove him, but the Guard has up to the present day been able to set its own house in order, added Colendorp with a sour glance at Unziar.
Valerie, as the Baroness von Elmur, was to be her father's guarantee for the future! Although Elmur's desires lay in the same direction, Selpdorf's insistence was most unpalatable to the German minister. 'I am ready to lay myself at Mademoiselle's feet, he said aloud, 'but there is always the picturesque young captain of the Guard. 'Unziar?
That Rallywood had done a thing above reproach, and in a manner above reproach, made it none the easier for his pride to accept the result. But he was above all considerations and before all considerations true to himself to Anthony Unziar. 'Captain Rallywood has made his point and a reputation, he said at last.
Rallywood checked the horse to shout and signal to the man that the ford was impassable, but his voice was drowned by the harsh throated noises of the night. Weak as was the starlight, something of the loose reckless swing in the saddle told Rallywood that the rider was Anthony Unziar. Unziar galloped down the stones of the incline and plunged into the torrent.
'No German has ever been welcome here before. We can but guess at treason. 'Hush! it cannot be that, since my father has knowledge of it. This was an entirely unexpected development of the difficulty. Unziar felt the check, and even in his turbulence he changed his venue. 'It may be so let that rest; but nothing can alter me in the belief that Elmur is the natural enemy of the State.
The corridors are held by Count Sagan's men. Mademoiselle Selpdorf has brought the news. 'What! You told me not two hours ago she was engaged to von Elmur. She is the price of Selpdorf's treason. Unziar stepped nearer. 'Mademoiselle Selpdorf has already risked her life to warn us that we are in danger. I'd stake my soul she is loyal. 'Good indeed, Anthony!
'And you are coming too, are you not? went on Madame de Sagan, with a note in her voice that Rallywood was learning to dread. 'I fancy not. Unziar and Adiron have been mentioned. 'Yes, Anthony Unziar, because he is my cousin, and for the sake of Valerie. Also Captain Colendorp. I do not like him, he is always black and sneering, but the Count chose him yesterday, and then I suggested yourself.
Out of all this chaff the one grain of truth was that Counsellor, released by Unziar on the authority of a telegram from Rallywood, had arrived by the first train in the morning and had at once proceeded to the British Legation. There he found Rallywood waiting for him.
He does not accept his destiny as final, his hopes are unimpaired, his resolves as strong as in the old keen days at Sagan. He clings to a blind conviction that Time and the Man must inevitably meet together, and he lives for that meeting. There, too, Anthony Unziar serves his country and his sovereign, relentlessly watchful through the dead monotony of the days.
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